Thispoetry collection explores the diasporic experience of leading a translated life, yearning to belong to a past that one no longer owns and a future that is murky and unclear. There is a sense of melancholic nostalgia in these poems but also a fierce kind of determination to embark on a new beginning and make the best of ones circumstances. The poems are particularly relevant to our times when there is a growing sense of parochialism and hostility towards the outsider. They will resonate with all those who have portable roots and are at home everywhere and nowhere.The poems also portray the emotive minefield of relationships, questioning the ambiguity behind maternal or filial love. Society conditions us to love our parent or child or partner but my poems challenge this by describing the tug of war between a womans sense of self and the roles she is expected to play.There is an undercurrent of mortality running through some of the poems. A sense of an ending and a reflection on what the passage of time can do to ones dreams and aspirations.Comments by the judges of the Word Masala Debut Poet AwardTheres a fierce energy in Reshma Ruias poetry. Her incantatory and conversational tone belies her social and human concerns. Her rhythmic control is amazing, sustained in her assertive voice and language. This debut collection everyone should readthe sooner the better. Captivating!Cyril Dabydeen, a formerPoet Laureateof Ottawa (198487)Reshma Ruia creates poignant vignettes of...

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